Apparently brammerville.com has been unavailable for quite some time and i never even knew it until recently i had a conversation with a friend about what i used to blog. I went to my site and noticed a big error saying

“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”

After looking at a few articles and then finding time to read through each one while at my computer to see if I can fix it, the answer was really simple: i just needed to update Word Press. Once I did that, I was back in business, and I can once again start to blog or share some more thoughts and try to do it more on a regular basis.

Along with fixing my website, the other update i to share is what i thought was just cold turned into what i never dreamed of having or saying. Over the weekend, i never felt well, and pretty much slept. I took Monday off from work and rested. Tuesday I got up and felt fine enough to go to work, however decided to take a Covid home test to make sure it was just a cold, and nothing more. That was far from the truth! The results showed a totally different story and thus put me on a different track for the coming days. I was on the phone Tuesday morning some time talking with my employer, people who i was in contact with over the weekend, and the County Health Dept.

For me, i have been fully vaccinated since February, and just feels like i have a cold with some fatigue. Since i took a Home Test, it was also required for me to go get a Rapid Test so results could be placed into the database system and proper contact tracing could take place. Today is Thursday, and today was the first time i noticed i lost my sniffer (grant it, my sniffer does not work well), but still in a house of essentials oils, there are some oils that should smell.

Now just waiting to hear back from the contract tracing people since they left a voicemail this morning, and i called back, and waited on hold, then had chance to leave a message.

Here’s to another day of taking it easy, getting rest, and trying to get better! 🙂 🙂

SB

As I have just completed week 8 of mostly working home, I’m trying to figure out what things that I need to continue to do that I started doing, and what things I need to stop doing.  For example, I have been trying to do a better job walking either at lunch time, after work or both. Just for the fact that working at home has dropped my daily step count tremendously. Another thing that I actually started to do was read more.i would start to read a book, then it would be a few months later when I would actually finish it. Now, I have read two books so far, and currently going through 3 others (with a 4th fun one that is about different apps that you can use for different things ). Thanks to free Kindle Unlimited for a few months!  One thing I have stopped doing was watching too much media. I would get home from work, watch the local news at 5, then National at 5:30, then more local news  at 6. Now it’s either the 5’o clock news or the 6, not both, and definitely no national news right now.

Another thing this week was having different HVAC companies bid out a new A/C. Currently the one we have (from 2002), is still working, but with Freon prices rising and our recent stimulus check, we decided to go ahead and buy a new one. Did our due diligence and got several quotes earlier this week from companies who stopped by and looked at the A/C, and furnace area ((which is actually in our crawl space). Will probably pick one this next week.

It‘s  graduation season. This morning we thought it would be fun to go to a small town outside Quincy to see if we could see a graduate that was going to participate in a parade of graduates around that town. Not only did we see her, but she was surprised to see us, and her mom was even surprised to see us as they drove by.

Finally, we are loving this new season of  curbside pickup, especially grocery pickup. Buy online, and when it’s ready, go pick it up curbside.

Earlier this spring, Kate and I decided to combine our anniversary trip with Kate’s work trip to MN. I like to plan and get things booked for our anniversary trip well in advance. So since we were going to combine trips into one, we were looking at places close enough to the Twin Cities so Kate could be there after Memorial Day.

So I booked an Airbnb in WI for Memorial Day weekend. It was a nice little place almost in the middle of nowhere. However, with the uncertain times we are currently in, God knew that we weren’t going anywhere for our anniversary at the beginning of May. So that could be why we had the thought to combine trips to the end of May.

plus with recent events that WI extended S@H until May 26th, we talked, and talked sone more and made the decision today to cancel the trip. Kate has also worked on getting it setup to do her work stuff remotely instead of being in MN that week.

However at some point, book the place and go, just not now or in the distant future.

But in  good news, we will be attending the first-ever virtual Rise Conferenc, hosted by the Hollis Company, May 2nd. it will be something fun to do since we will not be going anywhere. #RISEXLIVE

Things  will work out. I watched a Zoom call recently, and my two takeaways were

1. What are some new things I am doing now because of this, and what things do I either need to quit or reevaluate doing.

2. things wont be the same, and neither should we once this passes.